The internationalists

(ICT May Day 2010 Statement) · An Insoluble Crisis · It’s about three years since the sub-prime bubble burst shattering neo-liberal illusions that unlimited economic growth was possible on the basis of speculative financial games. Like a tsunami the mountains of speculative paper drowned out the real economy on which it was originally based, unleashing one of the worst crises in capitalist...

A few hours before the signing of the farcical “nuclear disarmament” agreement between Medvedev and Obama a violent revolt against the pro-American government of Bakiyev broke out. Almost a hundred dead and thousand wounded were left on the streets of the capital, Bishkek. The government fell and was immediately replaced by a “regency” in the person of Roza Otumbayeva, an ex-minister in the same...

Dubai is interesting, both because this tiny emirate, with hardly any natural resources, demonstrates all the arrogance of the world bourgeoisie, and because it was very recently hit by the financial bubble, which was already affecting the precarious balance of the global economy. We’ll take a brief look at the economic history of the Emirate, to explain the causes of the bubble, then try to...

(A Document by Onorato Damen) · CWO Introduction · We are presenting here an extract from the book Bordiga, validita e limiti d’una esperienza nella storia della “sinistra italiana” (Bordiga, Strengths and Weaknesses of an Experience in the History of the Italian Left) a collection of writings by Onorato Damen one of the principal architects of the Internationalist Communist Party which was...

The attack on immigrant workers is an attack on the entire working class. The response must be solid without ethnic divisions! · (Leaflet given out on the occasion of the “Day Without Immigrants: 24 Hours Without Us”) · The Rosarno Revolt in Calabria briefly brought into the media spotlight the inhuman working and living conditions of the great majority of immigrant workers.